Carefully Curated Overview

This modpack adds a variety of content aimed to expand the ROR2 vanilla experience for both new and old players without any major tweaks to base game content/balance (except void coins). It's been designed to turn off the additional items in game (except vanilla void) as if they were SOTV expansions. Furthermore, you can infinitely loop and redo every stage multiple times in a single run (even the bosses). No rebalancing (except minor mod item changes) has been done so feel free to add HIFU mods etc if you desire them.

Additions:

• 21 New Survivors.
• Several new drones.
• Lots of new shrines.
• Several new maps.
• A new ending.
• A new end boss variant.
• Several new enemies plus all variant mods.
• Lots of new challenges.
• Few new gamemodes.
• A few new item packs.
• Lots of skins.
• QOL stuff.

Single player tested only.

Configuration Changes

1. Forgotten Relics - Hazards are active (to increase awareness and decision making when playing).
2. Accurate Enemies - Only enabled for assassins to have more impact as enemies (Recovered and Reformed).
3. Risk of Waiting - Opening is on for new players who want to mod straight away.
4. Spikestrip Legacy - Living pots are on (no pain no gain).
5. Better UI - Item names only when looking at them prior to picking up (to keep closer to vanilla).
6. Survivor Sort Order - Modded characters are not mixed with vanilla. ROR1 characters are mixed in.
7. Stage Aesthetic - All stage palette swaps removed to keep to ROR2 theme.
8. Consistent Stage Features - Added for only the following: forgotten haven log, bulwark sword on slumbering satellite and reduced probability of slumbering satellite from being stage 5.
9. Wolfo Quality of Life - Added only for extra logs, ping icons and the offline prismatic trials.
10. Config Aspect Drop Chance - 1 in 500 for all aspects to be dropped as only equipment (like vanilla). Just a drop rate improvement.
11. Chens Gradius Items - Option seed damage % reduced from 20% to 10% to remove early game spiral.
12. Tinkers Satchel - Removed Artifacts

Recommended Mod Removal or Additions

Removal:

1. Vanilla Void (No option to turn off in game as of yet)
2. MadVet Skin Pack (No achievements for unlocking the skins as of yet)
3. ChensGradiusMod / Chill drone (Not configurable in game and may not quite fit ROR2)
4. More Shrines and Extra Challenge Shrines (Not configurable in game and not thoroughly play tested)
5. Direseeker (If you want the chest)
6. Remove ZetArtifacts to reduce clutter on menu.

Additions:

1. Lost through time skin pack - More high quality skins.
2. Thy Providence - A different flavour paladin providence skin.
3. Bulwark Enforncer - High quality enforcer skin.
4. More difficulties from SpikeStrip Modding - For the people who want to play extreme difficulties. Not compatability tested with obliterate redux.
5. MEL-T survivor - I only removed due to potential performance issues upon giving him the fuel array.
6. Gunslinger - I wish this was more configurable to remove the un-vanilla additions.
7. Fathomless Voidling - Better void boss fight experience.
8. ZetAspects - If want more usable aspect drops.
9. Chaotic Skills.
10. Playable Templar / Skins (Achievements won't work when using with egg skills).

Swap:

1. More_OSTs_Mod may want to be exchanged for His Music Was Electric for better peformance.
2. Exchange Recovered and Reformed for Released from the Void for a different experience.
3. ZetArtifacts for Difficulty Selection (Eclipse 8 only)

Compatibility Issues

1. Egg skills and Playable Templar/Skins (Achievements and graphical changes do not work for templar)
2. Umbral mithrix activation on powerfully slow moon variant stops mithrix spawning (softlock).
3. Better UI recent updates broke bubbets items so have been removed.

Future Work

• Convince some modders for configs.

Help

If you are able to make mods that add challenges to unlock other mod survivors or items, it would be a great way to contribute to an improved experience.

Contact

Feel free to contact me on discord for any recommendations or config changes! Name is Mim / Mimsical in the modding discord.